The archival selection process is far from straightforward, given the limitations of long-term preservation and ongoing accessibility challenges.
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Navigating Resource Challenges in Archives
Archivist’s advocacy strategies serve as bridges between tradition and innovation, securing the future relevance of archival programs.
Securing Funding for Archival Software
Archives expert Margot Note on proven practices for getting the budget for archival software including collections management systems.
Digitization and Internal Advocacy
Archival digitization democratizes access to historical records once reserved for a privileged few.
Conducting Oral History Interviews: Guidelines for Archivists
The art of conducting oral history interviews requires archivists to develop some essential skills and techniques to ensure a successful outcome.
Why Oral Histories Matter
Oral histories capture the unique stories and experiences of individuals, families, and communities not recorded on paper that would otherwise be lost.
Elements of a Records Survey Worksheet
A records survey worksheet is vital; it helps to systematically identify, organize, and describe records to ensure proper management.
Surveying Organizational Records
A records inventory includes identifying, organizing, and describing records; its steps include surveying, analyzing, and classifying records
Preserving Digitization Results
Digitization projects based on careful review, analysis, and planning are functional and faithful to the archival sources and support new scholarship
Investing in Archival Digital Projects
Archival digital projects offer greater efficiency, opportunity costs, increased institutional prestige, build staff expertise, and improve morale.
Strategizing for Digitization Projects
Archivists strategize before a digitization project. Digitization requires a significant investment, and assessing costs and benefits is essential.
Reading Room Recommendations
An archives reading room should provide reader comfort with optimum security for historical materials.
Processing Room Recommendations
A processing room provides a separate workspace from storage areas where archivists examine, sort, arrange, describe, and rehouse archival materials.
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